The African Diaspora was a forced dispersion of Africans to the New
World ‹ North America, South America, and the Caribbean. The whites of
the New World saw the Africans as tools to provide cheap labor, or
rather free labor, doing various tasks in the New World. For this
reason, the transatlantic slave trade was developed. Millions of
Africans were imported to the different parts of the New World and more
specifically, an estimated half million Africans was brought to the
United States over the course of two hundred years. While this
transatlantic slave trade caused the loss of many African political,
social, and economic institutions that posed a threat to slavery,
Africans were still able to maintain some parts of their culture,
particularly religious traditions and beliefs.